68Ga-PSMA-HBED-CC PET/CT: where molecular imaging has an edge over morphological imaging

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 394-396

  Mottaghy, Felix M ^a,b   Behrendt, Florian F ^a   Verburg, Frederik A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 11; FLUORINE 18; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PSMA HBED CC GA 68; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; EDETIC ACID; OLIGOPEPTIDE;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MULTIPARAMETRIC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REIMBURSEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EDETIC ACID; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; OLIGOPEPTIDES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84956692099     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-015-3212-5     Document Type: Editorial

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